Tuberculosis Exhibit opens in Long Branch area education push
The State Board of Health runs a Tuberculosis Exhibit in Monmouth County towns to educate the public on prevention. Long Branch is among five towns aided by Mrs. Cubberley's charity efforts as a notable community asset. Roosevelt support among Wall Street financiers is described as limited and largely noncommittal.
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State Board of Health
Long Branch
Monmouth
Wall Street
New York
Roosevelt
The Trying-Out Period and Presidential Primaries
The piece weighs direct Presidential primaries against the traditional convention system. It cites cost, participation fairness, and advantage to well funded candidates, but also notes future improvement and the primaries as essential civic education. It argues the expense is justified by national educational gains and the need for informed voter engagement.
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Russell
Elizabeth Times
North Pole
Direct primaries as a step in political growth
A speaker argues against discarding direct primaries and urges a fair trial of the system. He ridicules magic claims and warns that tearing down an established method without testing a new system undermines governance and public progress.
Suffragettes target Baltimore and Chicago conventions
The piece notes suffragettes plan demonstrations at Baltimore and Chicago conventions while Colonel Roosevelt endorses woman suffrage citing California Colorado and Oregon votes. It argues national conventions and presidential races have little impact, asserting suffrage is a state issue unless the Constitution is amended.
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Baltimore
Chicago
Roosevelt
California
Colorado
Oregon
Editorial on county division favors keeping county seat at Long Branch
The Red Bank Register editors defend the county division question and urge moving the county seat to Long Branch. The piece argues against division, calls the editorial thorough and educational, and contrasts Taft Roosevelt delegate counts with political maneuvering in Ohio.
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John H. Cook
Red Bank Register
George C. Hance
Cook
Register
Record
Long Branch
Contested Taft Delegates Raise Flag Day Auto Outlook
The National Committee seats Taft delegates from Arizona after a rump convention despite a 50 to 1 Roosevelt primary vote. California district delegates face unnamed results due to overlapping precincts, with all delegates at large by law. Taft forces in primaries were defeated by 77,000. The piece calls it might makes right and notes rising auto accident season.
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National Committee
Taft
Arizona
Roosevelt
California
Editorial comment on political race and aging campaign tunes
Editorials from The Times Dispatch Tribune and others discuss the Harmon boom and a political contest with Democrat Clark as a pivot. The piece notes skepticism about candidates Charley Murphy, Roger Sullivan, and Tom Waggart, plus a humorous dig at an old dog song.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Clark
Charley” Murphy
Roger Sulivan
Tom
The Mediterranean in blue remembered lore
A lyrical meditation on the sea's blue vastness and the sweep of history within its depths. The poem traces drops linked to places from Ebro to Luxor, Cypris, Athens, and beyond, evoking memory, myth, and timeless travel across civilizations.
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Ebro
Rhone
Marmora
Chamounix
Cyprus
Ancient
Troy
Athens
Pericles
Tunis
Tiber
Giotto
Ghiberti
Eve Arno
Thoughts Worth Reading by Mad Roland
Feeble tremble before opinion the foolish defy it the wise judge it and the skillful direct it in a succinct aphorism attributed to Mad Roland highlighting the power of opinion and discernment.
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Roland
Jeb Stuart’s First Raid Around the Army of the Potomac
General Jeb Stuart leads a mixed Virginia trooper and horse artillery force in a rapid raid in front of Richmond. He cuts through Federal cavalry outposts of McClellan’s army and encircles the camp. Also noting Cunard liner China’s record voyage from Queenstown to Cape Race in 5 days 17 hours.
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Jeb” Stuart
Virginia
Stuart
McClellan
Richmond
China
Queenstown
Cape Race
Negro voters by city in New Jersey 1910 census data
The 1910 federal census counted 28,601 black men of voting age in New Jersey. About a quarter lived in Atlantic City and Newark, with 3,756 and 3,016 respectively. Jersey City ranked third with 2,104, Camden fourth with 1,945, and Trenton fifth with 1,124. Hoboken had 39 black voters in a 70,324 population, while West Hoboken had 20 of 45,403 people.
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New Jersey
Atlantic City
Newark
Jersey City
Camden
Trenton
Hoboken
West Hoboken
Trenton Imes
Extending the Bureaucracy and Civil Service Controversy
The Newark Star argues the Civil Service Commission grants life tenure to county board of taxation secretaries, while commissioners serve three years. It mocks the view that a local appointed official is a State officer, warns of a hidden political lobby in Trenton, and calls the system a burdensome incubus hindering public employment.
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Civil Service Commission
County Boards of Taxation
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Long Branch, New Jersey
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